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Under Our Very Noses:The terrorist next door.

National Review

| November 05, 2001 | KARATNYCKY, ADRIAN | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

As U.S. and British bombs strafe Afghanistan's sparse landscape, it is comforting to think that we are striking at the heart of Islamic extremism. Yet while Osama bin Laden's network is clearly a major coordinating and breeding ground for terror, not all the terrorists who attacked America on September 11 were the products of the Islamic Middle East and South Asia. Many became extremists while living in the West, sustained by fanatical mullahs and organizations that operate openly in our midst.

It is indeed reassuring to view the terrorists who now threaten us as an exogenous threat rooted in the Middle East's Hobbesian environment of obscurantism, poverty, and ...

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